Do you often think back to an unpleasant or stressful event? After that, you start and become negatively affected by thinking about every detail and experiencing emotions and fears again. We often cannot stop thoughts, but at least we can manage them. Exhausting yourself emotionally and overloading your brain is not a good service you do yourself, so if you want to escape this situation, do these three simple brain exercises.
#1 Change your focus
We have learned that the things we notice are where we direct our mind and interest. But intentional attention management is an effective method of interrupting negative thinking. Whenever you find yourself stuck in a loop of obsessive thoughts, you just need to gently steer the "wheel" to something else, away from anxiety, fear and sad emotions.
#2 Gain emotional distance
It is difficult to get out of the emotional control of certain thoughts or situations. But by distancing yourself, you lower the intensity and reaction, without judging yourself. By gaining emotional distance from situations or events that have gone wrong, you stop yourself from thinking negatively and orient yourself towards a whole new situation.
#3 Reframe the story
If you continue to think of yourself as a victim, or a failure compared to others, whatever you have allowed to "occupy" your brain with bad thoughts, it is up to you to change the whole situation. List the positive emotions at the beginning and the bad ones at the end and thus you have reframed the whole story without being hostage to negative feelings.
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Source: Forbes
